Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

collapse is attributed to the Ives. arrett
deal failing to be consummated.
THE fint-glass factories in Pittsburgh
started up on the 1st, giving employment
to over two thousand men.
MR.. BLAINE is said to be enjoying him
self SO well in Scotland that his visit will
IN all probability be prolonged.
THE plate-gl fronts of several places
OF business in Fort Dodge, Ia, conducted
by leading Prohibitionists, were smashed
by unknown parties on the night of the
29th.
A SERIOUS famine is raging in Adana.
turkey, and the surrounding neighbor-
MOOD, occasioned by the drought that has
prevailed during the present summer
MR.. ED. LOCKE. city editor of the Pitts
hurgh (Pa.) Chronicle Telegraph, was
overcome by the heat on the morning of
the 3oth, while at work at his desk, and
was reported in critical condition
CHARLES f. REED, one of the lawyers
I who defended Guiteau, attempted suicide
on the Both by jumping from a North river
| On. W ferryboat. He was rescued by the
harbor police. He a financial and mental
wreck.
THE estimated reduction of the public
debt for July is S5,O00,0OO.
|
injured by railway accident near Con-
cord, N. H., on the Both.
| SECRETARY LAMAR has sent an agent of
the Interior Department to the ''public
land strip" lying between Kansas and
Texas to notify owners of illegal fences to
remove them at once.
THE ship Prince Albert arrived at Phila-
delphia from Rio de Janero with yellow
| fever Of he
ill.
| JOSEPH w. DRExEL has presented the
| surviving Union soldiers Of the late civil
war, in perpetuity, the cottage on Mt. Nc
| Gregor, N. Y, where General Grant died.
! DURING a recent hurricane on the At
lantic, Mr.. Kemp, of Illinois, was quite
seriously injured on the steamship Etruria,
on which he was passenger.
| NINETEEN persons died in New York on
the 31st without medical attendance,
the largest number in one day on record.
OSCAR S. SAWYER, the well-known New
York newspaper correspondent, died in
| Chambers Street hospital on the evening
of the 31st from sun stroke
| DURING heavy thunder storm on the
J evening of the 31st one of the tanks of the
| Atlantic Oil refinery at Point Breeze, Phil
adelphia, was struck bv lightning. The
oil consumed is variously estimated at
from 700 to 1,500 barrels
| PRINCE KROW LUANG DEvAWOUSGE
VARoPRAKAw, half brother of the King of
Siam, and suite arrived in New York by
the Umbria ON the 31st. The Prince, who
| hes been "doing" the Queens jubilee, is
about thirty-one years old, and speaks En-
| glish readily. He left Siam in May, and
will return via San Francisco, after visit
| ing the principal points in the United
| States.
IT was reported that NJ. Ferry's seconds
being absent from Paris the duel between
| himself and GeAeral Boulanger, which was
| appointed for the 1st, would of necessity
| be postponed until the I'd. The absence of
| thu seconds obliged NJ. Ferry to appoint
| others.
| THE New York San states that $275,OOO
has disappeared from the safe deposit
| vault of the estate of the late William Lot
timer. jerome l.. Hill, executor of the es-
tate, admits that he lost the money IN
| speculation. He was interested in the Bal
| timode & Ohio deal, and lost by its falling
| through.
CAPTAIN GILBERT KNAPP, the founder OF
Racine, Wis, died of old age at that city
| on the 31st. He was in the naval service
of the United States and participated in
many battles in 1912. He was engaged in
the naval service in the United States in
explorations and revenue service at differ
ent times for nearly fifty years.
A VERY decided shock of earthquake was
felt on the morning of the ID throughout
the West and Southwest, in some places
being SO pronounced as to take persons off
their feet The vibrations lasted about
THE free delivery system has been ex-
tended to another batch of towns in vari-
Gus States.
NJ. KATKoFF, editor of the Moscow Ga
zette, died on the 1st.
TOTAL public debt of the United States
is 81 ,6S1 ,426, ,139; decrease during July, ST.
S44,S94.
ALFRED LOWRY, woman murderer,
was hanged at Lancaster, England, on the
1st.
BARON RAYMON SELLIERE, recently re-
leased from a French insane asylum, ar
rived in New York City on the 1st.
MCGARIGLE has arrived safely in Can
ada, but his arrest has been ordered. Sen
sational developments are occurring at
Chicago.
IT is the opinion of observers of conti-
mental affairs that if war occurs in Europe,
much of the fighting will be done within
the borders of Belgium.
NEWS from Calcutta is to the effect that
the British Government has six army
divisions in readiness to invade Afghanis-
tan whenever the occasion appears to re-
quire action.
THE preliminary trial of Sergeant Clark
of the Twenty-third regiment, United
States infantry, at Detroit, Mich, on the
l4th, for the shooting of Private Albert
Stone, resulted in his discharge, the court
holding that soldier must obey any legal
order of his superior officers.
THREE young Nihilists murdered Gener-
al Nesterova's widow at Vladikavkas and
stole 800, 900 roubles. They were arrested
while trying to escape to Turkey.
MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN has arrived at her
home in Washington. She is reported to
be in a serious condition. Her shoulder
blade, which was dislocated, has been re-
set by DR.. Hamilton, as the first operation
was somewhat of a failure.
ANNIE Koch, seventeen years OF age,
swallowed two tablespoonfuls of rat poison